Posted on 11/29/2012 7:55:36 AM PST by Resettozero
The GOP establishment and some conservative pundits, such as Ann Coulter, are in full defense mode, claiming that Romney is not responsible for losing to an incumbent responsible for perhaps the most damaging fiscal crises in our nation’s history. Don’t believe it. Romney IS responsible for wasting a billion dollars to carry out an issue-free campaign full of simple-minded platitudes. Indeed, Coulter is leading the charge with her recent column titled, Don’t Blame Romney. It’s sweet to watch Coulter defend her darling Romney, but let’s get real.
The reality is that Romney was one of the worst GOP presidential candidates in modern times. He was not the first choice of most conservative voters but he managed to rise through the ranks in the primary due to conservatives being split 4-5 ways, but also due to a slew of endorsements from conservative leaders and groups that had no business endorsing him – such as Ann Coulter. Repeatedly, Coulter assured conservatives that Romney was one of us and that he would be the “best possible candidate” to face Obama. But as any conservative from Massachusetts knew, Romney was a liberal at heart who, as Governor, led the nation in passing three of the left’s most sacred issues: Same sex marriage, Cap and Trade, and government control of health care.
But the Romney forces were clever. Beginning in 2004, they created a half dozen PACs to give money to conservative and GOP entities all over the country. I’ve reviewed these disclosures and hundreds of GOP and conservative entities benefitted from Romney’s largess. In other words, he bought the support of many “conservative leaders” and used that support to give himself “cred” among conservative voters. It was a phony image though and it’s shameful that so many conservative leaders went along with this ruse.
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Well, it’s over now. Time to move on. If you liked Romney, of course you are deeply disappointed. If you hated him, you can celebrate his loss.
All I’m saying, now is the time we need to be united more than ever.
I am deeply disappointed now in people like Congressman Tom Cole R-OK, a person who I thought was a conservative, now caving in on Obama’s tax hikes. Those are the people we need to be concerned about now. Romney is done, over.
We could try to learn a few things from the Dems: Their superior GOTV operations and fundraising abilities, their never ending campaign, their constant war room, they unite and circle the wagons around their own——we need to learn some of these things——how to fight like hell. Instead we wander off like herd of cats, fighting amongst eachother and wandering off in separate directions. We don’t have that luxury anymore. We need to be united and disciplined and aim our firepower at the Dems, not eachother.
You know and I know that is the whole point of him meeting with Skippy the Echolocating Wonderbat today.
But do teh diehard mind numbed pro-liberal morons know that?
Judging from the moronicity of the discussion yesterday, no.
And they don’t care.
The pro-Rino zealots see Romney working for Obama as a ‘mitigation’ of anything Obama does.
Because, after all, imagine how much more it would hurt if someone else were steering the steamroller!
Great post. So true.
And then after the election, the Usual Suspects will say the GOP lost again because they were not far enough to the Left on the issues, that they were “out of touch” with the “new demographics,” that they “didn’t show they cared.”
It’s a sad, sad cycle. I’m afraid it can only end with freedom-minded, liberty-loving small government conservatives leaving the GOP. Because those of us that are that have been unable to project that forward in Presidential candidates. The GOP seems to be no place for a classic conservative.
BUMP!! BUMP!! BUMP!!
A bucket of warm spit is more qualified than that goat smelling skidmark in the Oval Orifice.
I see some “discussion” of Romney’s Mormanism as a contributing factor to his defeat but I haven’t seen anyone really analyze this factor. Were there enough “base” conservative voters turned off by his religion to sway the election? It seem plausible at least as plausible as any other factor.
Romney needs to go home to La Jolla and stay out of politics.
His lifetime ambition was POTUS and he failed. End of story.
He successfully destroyed conservatives, but NOT the Marxist.
“If you liked Romney, of course you are deeply disappointed. If you hated him, you can celebrate his loss.”
What if you didn’t like EITHER liberal loser and hated the RNC gameplaying and outright cheating in Virginia, Florida etc that foisted Romney on us?
What then?
How about those RNC rule changes to eliminate the voice of we the people, using the Ron Paul idiots as an excuse?
After all, the patricians know so much better than us, they said so.
And how about Romney fighting light years harder against other Republicans than he did obama?
No, YOU miss the point. The last 6 or 7 elections show that given the choice between dem and dem-lite, the people will pick the dem. What hasn’t been tried since 1984 is running a true conservative.
Agreed.
However, they are going to run yet another Rino in the next election.
The RNC already stated as much.
Romney was the symptom of the problem.
What is it about the GOP that causes it to nominate unelectable candidates?
1988: Bush - electable, because he ran as Reagan’s third term
1992: Bush - unelectable, because he ran as himself
1996: Dole - unelectable
2000: Bush - electable, but only because the Dems nominated Gore
2004: Bush - electable
2008: McCain - unelectable
2012: Romney - unelectable (couldn’t beat the weakest Dem candidate in 50 years)
What is it about the GOP process that causes them to nominate weak candidates? That’s the core problem we should look at.
What does an opinion do when you don't have a choice to begin with?
MONEY won mitt the primary against the PATRIOT! 24/7 negative ads in print, on radio and TV, cronies giving him endorsements and Drudge's Bloody Thursday against the PATRIOT.
With Romney meeting Obama today forunknown reasons, it’s starting to smell like a thrown election.
I agree. That's scary to see the pattern of the party bosses in whom they pick. I really think the party looks at the devoted patriotic American as the extreme voice.. why move the republican platform further left. The Tea Party was not even welcomed at Romney's staged convention. Houston, we found the problem :)
But Romney physically looked how the Republicans want their president to look. Wasn’t that enough?
And I think the situation will be so bad that Jeb will handily beat whoever the Democrats put up, leading the GOPe to think their philosophies were right all along and solving nothing in the long term.
You hit the nail on the head. The reason I liked Perry was his 2nd & 10th amendment loyalties. Solidly in the US Constitutional camp.
And the reason I liked Santorum was that he was a fighter. He campaigned on stopping Obamacare, put out commercials like "Obamaville" that would have scared the crap out of some of these zombies.
I fought against Romney at every turn until he was the nominee. Then defeating Obama was the only goal.
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